ARTS: Increasing the pace of biodiversity discovery: development and use of molecular, morphological and bioinformatics tools to revise the Bembidiina beetles of North America

艺术：加快生物多样性发现的步伐：开发和使用分子、形态学和生物信息学工具来修正北美的 Bembidiina 甲虫

• 批准号: 1258220
• 负责人: David Maddison
• 金额: $ 44.99万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1258220&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ARTS; Increasing; pace; biodiversity; discovery

Many species on Earth are unknown to scientists, and in some groups, such as beetles, many known species are poorly documented. This project will build tools and methods to increase the rate of species discovery and documentation, and it will apply these tools to a group of ground beetles (Bembidiina) having over 300 species in the United States. The researchers will discover and delimit species by analyzing DNA sequences using new methods they will develop based on population genetic theory. Photographs of the beetles and their defining physical characteristics will be captured and presented with the DNA results live as they are gathered in an open, online database to which other biologists can freely contribute. The researchers will develop tools to create tablet-apps and print-on-demand, custom-build field guides and scientific monographs. In addition to increasing knowledge about these common beetles, this project will produce many tools that will broadly benefit biodiversity scientists, regardless of their organisms of study. The new DNA analysis methods will allow experts to increase their rate of species discovery, and the improved integration of data collection with dissemination will ensure that effective documentation keeps pace with the rate of discovery.

地球上的许多物种对科学家而言是未知的，在某些群体中，例如甲虫，许多已知物种的文献鲜为人知。该项目将建立提高物种发现和文档速率的工具和方法，并将这些工具应用于美国拥有300多种物种的一组地面甲虫（Bembidiina）。研究人员将使用基于人群遗传理论开发的新方法来分析DNA序列，从而发现和界定物种。甲虫的照片及其定义的物理特征将被捕获并与DNA结果一起呈现，因为它们聚集在一个开放的在线数据库中，其他生物学家可以自由贡献。研究人员将开发工具来创建平板电脑应用程序和按需打印，定制田间指南和科学专着。除了对这些常见甲虫的越来越多的知识外，该项目还将生产许多工具，这些工具将广泛受益于生物多样性科学家，无论其研究生物如何。新的DNA分析方法将允许专家提高其物种发现率，并改善数据收集与传播的整合将确保有效的文档与发现率保持同步。